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Bottom up! : Special collaboration: Natalie Richard, Sommelier – Le Placoteux

Natalie Richard, sommelier from Saint-Jean-Port-Joli, recommends our readers her favorite local wines and spirits and answers your questions. This month bubbles to start the new year!

Domaine St-Jacques Brut 2020

$34.75 – 14,721,888 – 12.3% – 6.9 g/L

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An excellent sparkling wine from Quebec made using the traditional method, like champagne. The same blend of Vidal and Chardonnay offers a rich and delicious aroma thanks to the 24 months of aging on the lees. Floral and aniseed notes invite you to a fine, elegant bubble with creamy persistence, with a finish of golden apples. Both delicious and invigorating, an ideal sparkling wine for any festive occasion. Domaine St-Jacques is a family winery in Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur in Montérégie.

Masi Modello Prosecco

$19.30 – 13572729 – 11% – 9.6g/L

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Whether you want to treat yourself to the dolce vita, celebrate a birthday or accompany a festive aperitif, the effervescence of Prosecco is sublime thanks to the texture of its creamy bubbles and the sweetness of its fruity notes such as pear and apricot. It is pleasantly aniseed and offers enough length to make the enjoyment last for a long time. The Modello brand is one of the divisions of the Venetian mega company Masi, known for its Amarones and the Campofiorin range.

Questions from readers

Prosecco, Cava, Crémant or Champagne… How do you find your way?

The difference between sparkling wines depends on their origin, their production method and the type of grape used. Crémants and champagnes are made in France using the “traditional method” also used for cava made in Spain. Prosecco is an exclusively Italian product that is vinified in closed barrels, a method also called Charmat or Martinotti after the names of its inventors.

sparkling wine

The champagne is made using the traditional method, which is characterized by a second fermentation and foaming directly in the bottle. It is made primarily from Chardonnay, Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier. If the label says “Blanc de Blancs,” it’s because it’s made from 100% white grapes, i.e. Chardonnay. If it says Blanc de Noirs, it is made from 100% red grapes with white flesh, such as Pinot Noir. Champagne comes exclusively from Champagne, unlike the Crémants of France, which are made in the same way but produced in other regions such as the Loire, Alsace, Burgundy or Jura.

Prosecco

Prosecco is vinified in northern Italy from the Glera grape variety. The foam is collected in large pressure tanks. Its bubbles are creamier, with notes of pear and almond paste and a lemony finish. The Proseccos essentially all have the same profile and quality, the highest quality being marked Cartizze or DOCG Valdobbiadene.

The cava

Like Champagne, Cava is made using the traditional method, but mainly from the Spanish grape varieties Macabeo, Parellada and Xarel-Lo, which provide floral and fruity notes. The bubbles are sometimes more vibrant and it offers excellent value for money in a wide range of styles and qualities, from generic to premium.

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Sightful opens Spacetop AR laptop purchase to everyone with advanced software features – notebookcheck.biz

Sightful offers the world's only augmented reality laptop for sale

Early Access Spacetops are now available invite-free on Sightful.com

January 9, 2024, 1:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time

TEL AVIV, Israel–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Today Sightful™ announced that it is making its early access product Spacetop generally available for purchase by anyone, following a successful early adopter invitation program. Spacetop™ represents a new era in consumer technology, offering users the power and privacy of augmented reality combined with the portability and convenience of traditional laptops.

“Our early access provided exactly the feedback we hoped and needed from our users,” said Tamir Berliner, CEO and co-founder of Sightful. “The feedback we received has directly contributed to improving our software and helped us reach the point where we are ready to open Spacetop to the general public to take the next step in laptop development and experience the value that augmented reality can bring to their daily lives.”

The Spacetop Early Access program opened in May 2023 with the goal of working closely with some of the most influential early adopters of technology who have been verified and invited into the program and using their feedback to improve the proprietary software. Since the program's inception, Sightful has made numerous improvements to the Spacetop software:

  • Spacetop Live Stream – A collaborative feature that allows users to share a first-person view of their workspace with friends or colleagues via a URL or QR code, with the option of either a specific window or their entire Spacetop canvas to divide from edge to edge.
  • Expanded library of “native” web applications – Windows 365, Hubspot, Docusign, Figma, Notion, Mesh Payment and Hibob HR have been added to Spacetop’s library of web applications commonly used by all teams within an organization.
  • Travel Motion Tracking – Spacetop offers travelers everything they need to stay productive in the car, train or plane. It now features a motion stabilization mode that can be activated or deactivated via a simple keyboard shortcut.

Following the success of Spacetop's initial launch in May 2023, Sightful unveiled its Enterprise Seeding program in October to accelerate the adoption of spatial computing across the distributed workforce. Under this program, Sightful sells a range of Spacetops to Fortune 500 companies as part of a carefully selected Alpha program designed to improve productivity and collaboration while meeting enterprise requirements for data security, VMware, VPN access, Microsoft and Citrix software suites and much more.

Spacetop is available for $2,150.00. Interested customers can purchase a Spacetop at Sightful.com.

About Sightful

Sightful, developer of Spacetop, the world's first wearable augmented reality computer, is a human-computer interaction (HMI) company dedicated to transforming the world around us for the work-anywhere movement. Founded by spatial computing veterans Tamir Berliner (PrimeSense, acquired by Apple, Magic Leap) and Tomer Kahan (Broadcom, N-trig, acquired by Microsoft, Magic Leap), Sightful brings together a growing team of more than 70 employees Product expertise management, UX/UI, core software, cloud, applications, marketing, computer vision, artificial intelligence, systems and design as well as world-class manufacturing partners. Sightful counts Corner Ventures, Aleph and others among its investors. Headquarters are in Tel Aviv, Israel, and there are offices in Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Taiwan and Singapore.

Press contact: David [email protected]

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Limited Offer: Get Microsoft Office and Windows 11 Pro for life from €10 – Futura

Increase your productivity for the new year 2024! Take advantage of the winter sale on Godeal24 and secure a lifetime license for Microsoft Office 2021 and Windows 11 Pro from €10. Bring a whole new dynamic to your digital experience today.

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CES in Las Vegas: Artificial Intelligence is everywhere – The Good Life

“The Good Life” was at CES in Las Vegas and reached around 135,000 visitors, 3,500 exhibitors and 1,000 start-ups. A common denominator: ubiquitous artificial intelligence, but not necessarily omniscient.

AI (“AI” in the original language), this is the final essential ingredient of any self-respecting technological object. A bit like Yuzu in restaurants some time ago… At CES in Las Vegas, the largest high-tech trade fair in the world, artificial intelligence and its advanced version called generative (ChatGPT and others) are omnipresent. A boon for brands and startups lacking innovation, after editions in which the new products were often iterations of existing technologies rather than true revolutions. Such a Holy Grail is certainly not commonplace. So when the opportunity arises to bring some kind of technology to the forefront, everyone takes it. With more or less legitimacy.

Also read: Artificial intelligence calls into question the copyright of works of art

Everyone is concerned with artificial intelligence

For example, AI is making its way into cars, such as Volkswagen, which has announced the introduction of ChatGPT in its cars. “The most interesting thing about ChatGPT for me is the possibility of having it tell a story about a place on the street, for example,” explains Axel Heinrich, head of innovation at VW. Nothing too revolutionary, especially since GDPR rules (and VW's distrust of their new smart friend) limit the location data sent to the American server. The development will be even more impressive with the introduction of conversation features in a second phase. But who wants to talk to their car? Nowadays, only a third of customers use simple voice commands, admits A. Heinrich.

A VW equipped with ChatGPT.A VW equipped with ChatGPT.

A VW equipped with ChatGPT.

In the house of BoschWe point out the possibility of starting to prepare a coffee if the car detects signs of tiredness in the driver upon arrival home. Essential, really?

As for the French automotive supplier ValeoAs one of the giants of the genre, he sees the truth of AI elsewhere. Certainly it offers solutions based on AI, such as the possibility of automatically offering an edited film summarizing a trip, with a 360° view of the car in its context such as a drone, selfies… But its potential will Above all, it is a phenomenal tool for the development of the technologies themselves. Provided you can master the incredible amounts of data that are created: 40 petabytes (or 40,960 terabytes!) are necessary to teach an AI to recognize driving situations, for example. And Geoffrey Bouquot, CTO and Senior VP Strategy at Valeo, reminds us:

Data is like oil, it needs to be refined. »

Perfecto and Vogelhaus at CES Las Vegas

Far from the automotive world, we find AI hidden in the corridors of Eureka Park, a show where start-ups try their luck at CES Las Vegas. In the French tech square we notice the presence of The Kooples for a capsule collection created by a generative AI, explains the brand as the source of ideas.

The computer is more pragmatic LG Gram Pro with Intel AI Boost makes task sharing easier, while the Guidi belt can detect obstacles to precisely guide blind people.

The Kooples at CES 2024.The Kooples at CES 2024.

The Kooples at CES 2024.

But gadgets are never far away at CES. THE Rabbit R1 is a box full of artificial intelligence that is supposed to replace the smartphone – history will show whether it doesn't fall into the pit of false good ideas. The Bird Buddy birdhouse detects birds to photograph them, the smart Flappie trap door only lets the cat in if it has released its prey (the bird from the house?) outside, while Samsung's indescribable connected fridge gets smarter with the Family Hub+ recognizes incoming and outgoing products.

It's up to you to judge how important it is to have your products automatically displayed on the pantry screen, especially since the expiration date must be entered manually. Intelligence sometimes has its limits.

LG Gram Pro.LG Gram Pro.

LG Gram Pro.

Also read: Trend: The big return of designer high-tech gadgets in retro style

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The James-Webb solves the mystery of cosmology's mysterious Lyman-α emission – Futura

The entire astronomical community undoubtedly had high hopes when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched on December 25, 2021. It reached the Lagrange point L2, its destination, that is, the region of Earth's orbit where the Planck satellite carried out its spectacular study of fossil radiation, the oldest observable light in the cosmos, telling us about its age, curvature, shape and its content informed in dark matter and energy.

The fossil radiation was emitted within a few thousand years, about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. The James-Webb does not make such early observations in the history of the observable universe, but it could allow us to go back at least 250 million years after the Big Bang and at least better understand the layers of light. Let's say between 400 million and a billion years, which was already accessible with Hubble, but much more imperfect.

The universe has continuously evolved for 13.8 billion years. Contrary to what our eyes tell us when we look at the sky, what makes it up is anything but static. Physicists make observations at different ages of the universe and run simulations in which they recreate its formation and evolution. It appears that dark matter played a large role from the beginning of the universe to the formation of the large structures observed today. © CEA Research

Primitive galaxies that should be invisible in Lyman-α emission

Nevertheless, a paper published in Nature Astronomy, available open access on arXiv, reports JWST observations that solve a puzzle that has puzzled cosmologists for some time. According to the standard cosmological model, which is based on dark matter and dark energy, the most distant galaxies should not glow much due to the so-called Lyman-α emission from hydrogen atoms. They would glow even less if we observed them in ancient layers of light, to the point that they would be invisible only less than a billion years after the Big Bang.

That's not the case, why? Would this point to another problem in standard cosmology like that of the value of the famous Hubble-Lemaître constant?

To understand what it really is, we have to turn to the emission of fossil radiation. In a few thousand years, the temperature of the universe's plasma has fallen so much due to its expansion that during this period the first hydrogen and helium atoms are formed, whose nuclei capture the free electrons and give rise to neutral atoms. This is the beginning of the famous Dark Age, because it will take about a hundred million years before a large number of stars begin to appear.

The phenomenon of reionization occurred very early in the history of the universe, making direct observation difficult. A few minutes after the Big Bang, the universe was still too hot for electrons to be captured by atomic nuclei: it was then completely ionized. The universe then continued to expand and cool until its temperature was low enough for electrons to bind to nuclei and form the first atoms. This so-called “recombination” took place about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. This moment also marks another important event in the history of the universe: While light is scattered very easily by electrons when they are free, this is much less so when they are bound to nuclei. . Recombination also marks the moment when the universe became transparent and light could spread freely there. © HFI Planck

These stars are very hot and emit radiation in the ultraviolet region, exactly corresponding to Lyman-α emission. However, even at this point, there is still masses of neutral hydrogen, especially near forming galaxies, and it will take hundreds of millions of years for the radiation from stars in these young growing galaxies and perhaps the first giant black holes to accumulate matter heats up and radiates accordingly, ionizing this neutral hydrogen between galaxies, which is rather opaque to Lyman-α emissions. The observable cosmos should therefore only slowly become transparent during the so-called reionization period, which, as we know, will end at the latest about a billion years after the Big Bang.

“Galaxies” made up of multiple colliding galaxies?

Astrophysicists believe they now have the key to the mystery of the abnormal luminosity of young galaxies while reionization is not yet sufficient. It therefore comes to us from JWST and its NIRCam, one of its instruments that observes in the near infrared and is able to see the light shifted towards these frequencies for distant galaxies.

NIRCam resolved images of galaxies that were actually large galaxies, but were surrounded by small nearby galaxies that were interacting or even colliding with each other.

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Lyman-α emission is light emitted at a wavelength of 121.567 nanometers when the electron in an excited hydrogen atom moves from an excited state in the n=2 orbital to its ground state n=1 (the lowest energy state that the atom has can). Quantum physics dictates that electrons can only exist in very specific energy states, meaning that certain energy transitions – such as when the electron of a hydrogen atom moves from the n=2 to the n=1 orbital – can be identified based on the wavelength of the hydrogen atom. the light emitted during this transition. The emission of Lyman-α is important in many areas of astronomy, in part because hydrogen is so abundant in the universe, and also because hydrogen is often excited by energetic processes such as active formation in the progression of stars. Therefore, Lyman-α emission can be used as a sign of active star formation. © ESA

The team behind the Nature Astronomy paper then used computer simulations to reproduce the phenomena occurring in these galaxies and, as an ESA press release states, “its members discovered that the rapid accumulation of stellar mass due to galaxy mergers leads to powerful emission of hydrogen and facilitated the escape of this radiation through channels that were free of the abundant neutral gas. Thus, the high rate of mergers of smaller, previously unobserved galaxies provided a compelling solution to the long-standing mystery of the unexplained early emission of hydrogen.

The team plans follow-up observations with galaxies in different stages of merger to further develop their understanding of how hydrogen emissions are emitted from these evolving systems. Ultimately, they will be able to improve our understanding of the evolution of galaxies.”

Even more clearly, the close collisions between several dwarf galaxies and large galaxies, originally surrounded by a halo of neutral hydrogen, led to ionization of this halo, allowing the formation of an ionized bubble responsible for the alpha emissions from hydrogen the frenzy of young stars forming in these transparent galaxies.

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Tomb Raider I-III Remastered: What's new in this version? – Geek Diary

At the beginning of the year and almost 25 years after its original release, the original trilogy of the Tomb Raider saga is given new life. Tomb Raider I-III Remastered will be released on February 14th for PlayStation, Xbox, Switch and PC. Far from being a simple facelift of these cult adventures, this edition promises many improvements to appeal to long-time fans and newcomers alike. The Aspyr studio responsible for the collection announced news about the project on the official PlayStation blog as launch neared.

While Crystal Dynamics is responsible for continuing the world of Tomb Raider in new and increasingly grandiose episodes, it is time for players to rediscover the three titles that made Lara Croft's reputation. To honor the franchise's legendary legacy, Aspyr developers have focused their efforts on improving the original versions using their original source code. Since the studio was already responsible for porting the franchise to Mac OS up until the episode “The Angel of Darkness,” its teams are certainly best placed to breathe new life into the historical works. Before you pre-order the game or purchase it at launch, here's what you need to know about the new content in Tomb Raider I-III Remastered.

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Technical improvements of all kinds

The first trailer already revealed the trilogy's graphical facelift. Players have the opportunity to enjoy these three adventures with new textures and different 3D models. However, the most nostalgic fans can opt to retain the original graphics – albeit with a bit of an upgrade – for a more authentic experience.

But Aspyr was not satisfied with a simple “renovation”. The gameplay of the titles has also been revised for greater comfort. These are offered Different control options, modern for birthday and legend fans or classic for nostalgics. For greater clarity, the most robust bosses will finally display a life bar that remains discreet enough not to detract from the minimalist look of the original interface.

All of the game's 2D sprites – such as ammo, health packs, and even certain treasures – have been replaced with brand new 3D models. However, the most surprising graphical achievement remains the attention to detail and nostalgia that Aspyr applies. The studio wanted to maintain the title's retro vibe by offering new visual elements that were intended to “represent the way players imagined the game at the time.” Graphics from previous games often appear different in our memories than they do on our screens, but these versions of Tomb Raider I, II and III should resonate with early fans.

Switching from one graphics mode to another is possible at any time, even in the new photo mode. Achievement hunters will also be happy to know that more than 200 achievements can be unlocked across the three titles. Better yet, all of these new items, designed for a perfect Tomb Raider experience, cost €28.99: a more than reasonable price for a collection of this kind.

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ONEXPLAYER X1: Prices and release date of the powerful new games console confirmed – notebookcheck.biz

Earlier this week, One-Netbook launched the ONEXPLAYER X1 in China. For reference, the company is charging at least CNY 5,999 (~$839) for its large gaming handheld, or CNY 7,299 (~$1,021) for the more desirable model, the more desirable Core Ultra 7 155H. Today One-Netbook announced launch pricing on Indiegogo as well as a full release date.

As expected, the ONEXPLAYER X1 will launch with the Core Ultra 5 125H processor, a less powerful alternative to the Core Ultra 7 155H that also powers the MSI Claw. Although we haven't tested the Core Ultra 5 125H yet, its two fewer CPU cores, four fewer CPU threads, and weaker iGPU will undoubtedly deliver lower gaming performance than the Core Ultra 7 155H. However, all variants will come with LPDDR5x-7467 RAM, PCIe 4.0 storage and a 65Wh battery.

The ONEXPLAYER X1 will be available on Indiegogo starting January 23rd at 4:00 p.m. UTC. Prices start at $859 with a Core Ultra 5 125H 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD and go up to $2,409 with a Core Ultra 7 155H processor with 64GB RAM, 4TB SSD and an ONEXGPU processor. Below you can find all the pricing details as well as the official specifications:

  • Core Ultra 5 125H, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD – 859
  • Core Ultra 7 155H, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD – 999
  • Core Ultra 7 155H, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD – 1,069
  • Core Ultra 7 155H, 32GB RAM, 4TB SSD – 1,399
  • Core Ultra 5 125H, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD, ONEXGPU – 1,509
  • Core Ultra 7 155H, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, ONEXGPU – 1,649
  • Core Ultra 7 155H, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD, ONEXGPU – 1,719
  • Core Ultra 7 155H, 32GB RAM, 4TB SSD, ONEXGPU – 2,049

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